Scaramucci ousted as White House Communication Director

The staff changes and upheaval continued at the White House on Monday, as White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci was pushed out of his post after less than two weeks on the job, and just hours after President Donald Trump welcomed his new Chief of Staff, former Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly.

Scaramucci, who had been brought into the White House just two Fridays ago, on July 21, had been grabbing the headlines repeatedly in that time, most notably with a profanity-laced interview with the New Yorker magazine, as the hedge fund financier evidently fell from grace in no time.

After getting his position, Scaramucci had told reporters there would be a number of people fired at the White House; many might not have assumed that would include him before the end of July.

For the 3rd time in 7 business days, reporters are crowded in the WH press office trying to get confirmation/details of big staffing shifts

In a written statement issued by the White House, the official explanation was that Scaramucci wanted to give Kelly a “clean slate” to work with – that phrase was identical to one that outgoing White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer had used when Scaramucci was hired earlier this month.

The move also came not long after President Trump pushed back against media reports of trouble at the White House, specifically using a morning tweet to deny that.

“No WH chaos!” Mr. Trump tweeted.

Democrats in Congress immediately seized on the news, and said it simply showed there was indeed chaos at the White House, as they openly mocked the President.

One thing that is different as of today is that the White House Chief of Staff will now be ‘the’ gatekeeper for President Trump, as Kelly will have all staff report to him, with no one going directly to the President, a system that reportedly caused trouble for former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.